Posted on 06/13/2022 7:07:32 PM PDT by Rummyfan
H. L. Mencken once observed that no one “ever lost money by underestimating the intelligence of the great masses of the plain people.”
That’s a nicely phrased comment.—
But I suspect we are on the verge of seeing it disproved.
Those “great masses” understand what the House Committee is up to.
Moreover, the public well remembers the multiple scenes of carnage from across the country from about the same time in response (ostensibly) to the black man who died while resisting arrest in Minneapolis.
The mob breached the White House security perimeter.
They torched police cars and police stations while pathetic reporters stood in front of the conflagrations and informed the public that what they were watching were “mostly peaceful” protests.
They maimed police officers and caused some $2 billion in damage.
The January 6 protest lasted a few hours.
The only shot was fired, without warning, by Capitol Hill Police officer Michael Byrd.
The bullet was fired at point-blank range at Ashli Babbitt, an unarmed veteran who was trying to calm protesters adjacent to her.
It struck her in the neck and killed her. Byrd was exonerated.
Then there was Roseanne Boyland, also unarmed, who was gassed and beaten while unconscious by the police.
She died, too.
Most of the people who entered the Capitol that day, many of whom were ushered in by smiling Capitol police officers, just wandered around gawking.
So outside the beltway, the public is pretty uninterested in this story, especially when inflation is the worst it’s been in 40 years, consumer confidence is at an 83-year low, energy prices are skyrocketing, as are interest rates, food, and housing, and the stock market, which means most people’s retirement accounts, is imploding.
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Ashli was shot while trying to climb thru a broken window. She did not deserved to be shot especially without warning and by a scumbag cop how routinely left his service weapon in a public bathroom. But she was not trying to calm protesters. Let's be truthful here.
“Ashli was shot while trying to climb thru a broken window.”
I’ve read that many times. But the photos show the windows rather high up in the doors and it doesn’t appear that a person could climb through those windows. You’d have jagged glass to get over and the glass most likely would be high-strength not easily broken in the first place. She would have had to be standing on the backs of others to climb through those door windows and she wasn’t. And, if you went head-first through those windows, you’d have a four, maybe five foot drop on the other side to the floor.
I don’t think the video shows her trying to climb through the windows and the “She was trying to climb through the windows” story doesn’t make a lick of sense.
I'm surpised none of the 30 cops with swat gear and M4s right beside her weren't shot by that sick and pathetic excuse for a cop.
What were they smiling about?
Looked to me that all she did was stand up on the shelving next to the window frame. I saw no breaks in the glass, and she didn't have time to make even a gesture at compromising the window. The assassin just shot her in the throat as soon as she stood up.
Ashli Babbitt was lifted up to the windows by two people when she was shot.
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